Community For Youth

Community For Youth
999 Third Avenue
Suite 1570
Seattle, WA 98104

Office
(206) 325-8480

Fax
(206) 957-2255

Who are our students?
CfY programs serve a variety of students. The graphs below offer a general description of student characteristics with respect to ethnicity, home income, living situation, and Washington Assessment Student Learning (WASL) scores.

Ethnicity
Community for Youth serves primarily minority youth, 93% are students of color.

CfY School Details
Here is a more detailed look at data for each of three high schools CfY serves - Rainier Beach, Cleveland, and Chief Sealth (data from Seattle School District 2005-2006 school year).

Rainier Beach
Cleveland
Chief Sealth

African-American 61% 54% 25%

Asian/Pacific Islander 25% 24% 25%

Caucasian 7% 8% 25%

Hispanic 7% 11% 22%

Native Americann 1% 3% 4%

Students Live With...
Only 22% of our students live with both parents. Many of them come from single parent homes or nontraditional living situations with grandparents, aunts or foster parents.

Rainier Beach
Cleveland
Chief Sealth

Mother 53% 61% 55%

Father 15% 7% 10%

Both Parents 22% 25% 19%

Grandparent 8% 2% 6%

Legal Guardian 2% 5% 3%

Other 0% 0% 7%

Income Level Students must live in homes below the federal poverty level to qualify for reduced or free lunch.

Percentage of Low Income Students

	in CfY	in Seattle Public Schools
Reduced/Free Lunch	70%	32%

WASL The Washington Assessment Student Learning (WASL) is a standardized test to measure students' academic performance in Washington State. Students in the class of 2008 will be required to pass these standard tests to graduate from high school. This table shows the combined average percentage of students in our schools that met the standards compared to the percentage of students statewide in 2005.

WASL 2005
% Meeting Standard

	in CfY Schools	in Seattle Public Schools	Statewide
Three Required Subjecs	16%	35.3%	42%
Reading	54.4%	66.4%	72.4%
Writing	44.5%	54.3%	64.7%
Mathematics	20.2%	40.6%	47.1%
Science	9.9%	32.2%	35.6%

We serve three of the most challenged schools in Seattle Public School district: Rainier Beach, Cleveland and Chief Sealth. Students at these three schools demonstrate a low rate of passing the WASL standards.

WASL 2005
% Meeting Standard within our three schools

	Cleveland	Rainier Beach	Sealth
Three Required Subjecs	19.8%	7%	21.4%
Reading	56.8%	51.6%	54.9%
Writing	54.7%	33.6%	45.1%
Mathematics	23.1%	12.5%	25%
Science	11.5%	1.6%	16.5%

What makes Community for Youth unique:

We build a community of support for students and mentors

We teach and instill core concepts focused on personal growth and accountability

Students and mentors are involved in the selection of their match

We place a strong emphasis on mentor training and support

We place a staff member in each of our schools during the school day.

Results:
Students in Community for Youth's programs show:

90 - 100% of students in our programs stay in school (compared to 78% of Seattle Public High School students)
90%+ of those students who stay in our programs graduate from high school (compared to 58.9% of Seattle Public High School students)
83% of our students positively changed their behavior and/or achieved their goal
93% of our students reported that they benefited from our program
86% believe they gained a sense of personal accountability
97% feel connected to the community